On Monday October 1 2007 05:01 am, Irene Kennedy wrote:
> I have happily used open office 2 in preference to microsoft stuff but
> suddenly it's changed. I could, until a couple of week's ago, save
> documents as open office or as microsoft, so that I could send them to
> other people. open office saved a copy as an open office document and
> another as a microsoft document, and allowed the same name. Now it's
> gone completely haywire. it refuses to save in 2 formats and insists on
> saving only one copy. It then asks me each time which programme I want
> to open the document with. these documents are proving impossible to
> send to other people and I now face the daunting task of retyping
> hundreds and hundreds of documents if I want to share them. I also will
> not be able to work on any of these documents on the University computer
> unless I also retype them. What is going on?
Irene x
The first time you save a file, the Save As window opens. Near the
middle of the bottom of that window is a box labeled Automatic file name
extension. Most likely, that you accidentally unchecked that box.
What happens if you manually add the correct file name extension to one
of these files?
Dan
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